Stanford Law professor Michelle Mello explores issues with California vaccine exemption laws
STANFORD LAW — California vaccine laws are among the toughest in the nation, particularly since the state did away with the personal belief and religious exemption in 2015 following a measles outbreak that began in Disneyland. Stanford Health Policy’s Michelle Mello, a professor of law and professor of medicine, writes in this Annals of Internal Medicine editorial that California’s experience is…
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UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF LAW — In one of the first cases of its upcoming term, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear the case of a transgender woman who was fired from her job and determine if Title VII protects against discrimination against transgender individuals. A University of Kansas law professor has co-written an amicus…
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LEWIS & CLARK LAW SCHOOL — The Criminal Justice Reform Clinic (CJRC) at Lewis & Clark Law School recently filed a joint amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in support of an Oregon Law Center lawsuit. The Metropolitan Public Defender’s (MPD) Community Law Division, which partners with CJRC on the Barrier Reduction Project, joined…
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GRAND FORKS HERALD — The North Dakota Supreme Court returned to the University of North Dakota Law School this week for its annual visit, giving students the opportunity to see the state’s highest court in action as it heard four arguments over the course of two days. The first of the four cases, heard the morning of…
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ASSOCIATION OF JESUIT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES — Santa Clara University School of Law is best known for its national ranking in technology law. What is less well-known is that the curriculum—for tech-law students and others—comes to life through a lens of social justice. Internationally, well over a dozen Santa Clara Law students work each year for hours…
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UNIVERSITY OF AKRON — Since fall 2016, University of Akron School of Law students at the school’s Immigration and Human Rights Clinic have provided one-on-one representation in removal defense cases for 32 asylum-seeking noncitizens detained at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center (NEOCC) in Youngstown and at other facilities throughout the country where appeals clients are held…
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BC LAW MAGAZINE — BC Law’s Liberty Mutual Insurance Professor Patricia McCoy, a rare US legal academic specializing in both insurance law and federal banking regulation, has been selected by the Federal Reserve Board as an inaugural member of its Insurance Policy Advisory Committee (IPAC). McCoy and the other 20 members of the IPAC will advise the Federal Reserve Board on…
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BERKELEY LAW — Monday afternoon, before a packed house of Berkeley Law students, faculty, and staff at Zellerbach Hall, Ginsburg described meeting Kay at a 1971 conference on women in the law. “The rest of that decade, Herma was my best and closest working colleague,” she said. The justice received spirited standing ovations before and after the…
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LANSING STATE JOURNAL — For years, Dewitt resident Rick Holey had considered attempting to expunge his decades-only drug possession conviction, a felony. That changed this week when he visited a free clinic at the Michigan Hall of Justice downtown. Attorneys and law students volunteered their time Tuesday to guide Holey and more than 100 others through the…
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THE ATLANTIC JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION — The Supreme Court granted special permission for University of Georgia School of Law students to represent Williams during oral arguments on Tuesday morning. The students are members of UGA’s Appellate Litigation Clinic, set up for people who find themselves with cases in the court system’s upper levels but who don’t have the…
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